Steve Leighton

I open a song and try to play but I keep getting a message that says "Unable to open audio playback device. Device may not support the current project's audio format or may be in use"

Any ideas on this?  Thank-you

This can be really frustrating. I'll be working in my DAW and for no real reason that I can pinpoint, the whole screen gets this white fogged over look and stops working. The little blue processor wheel keeps spinning.  I have to close the whole program down and it doesn't want to come back right away.

My new edition of Cakewalk is seeing the I/O  box just fine today. I was working with it for over an hour and then the whole screen just went white , sort of like a thick fog but I could still see it

I am brand new to this so I first installed Sonar 4. Yes, I actually bought the disk on Reverb.com for twenty bucks. A friend gave me a really cool I/O box, an M-Audio Fast Track Ultra. It's strange because sometimes the new free edition of Cakewalk will "see" that I/O box and sometimes it won't. This morning I went back to the Sonar 4 project and it saw the I/O box just fine but my newest edition of Cakewalk did not. I even removed the Fast Track for the Sonar 4 project and the new Cakewalk still didn't see it.  Hmmm.... and clues? Thanks

15 hours ago, Nigel Mackay said:

I also can't see any loop packs there.

Try this:

Add the SI Drums to a track. Open up its GUI. It has drum loops of various genres. If you double-click on one it plays, so you can audition them. You can drag and drop onto a MIDI track.

Most drum synths do that. Google free drum vsts plugins and have a look at the 10 top free drum kits.

That should get you started.

If you need help with doing that, start working through these tutorials

I knew this was going to happen. In reading a lot of other notes in here I keep seeing 2 or 3 letter acronyms and I have no idea what they stand for.  Is there a DAW dictionary of acronyms? For instance, you said " Add the SI Drums to a track. Open up its GUI" I have no idea what SI and GUI stand for. This is how new I am to all of this. 

  Then scook said "may be dragged directly into CbB from BA." Again, no idea. I'm sure life will be easier once I learn more of these. Thank-you for  you help!

15 hours ago, Nigel Mackay said:

I also can't see any loop packs there.

Try this:

Add the SI Drums to a track. Open up its GUI. It has drum loops of various genres. If you double-click on one it plays, so you can audition them. You can drag and drop onto a MIDI track.

Most drum synths do that. Google free drum vsts plugins and have a look at the 10 top free drum kits.

That should get you started.

If you need help with doing that, start working through these tutorials

Okay, please forgive me but I'm brand new to the entire world of DAW.  I've been slowly piecing together a home studio and now I'm ready start creating.  I want to start by importing some drum loops from Band Lab Assistant. I can't figure out how. This is my very first question and I'm sure as I get more familiar with this forum I'm be able to find more answers on my own. 

Thank-you!